Women dressed as bride and groom march in the annual Gay Pride parade in Greenwich Village, Sunday, June 26, 2011 in New York. One of the world’s oldest and largest gay pride parades was expected to become a victory celebration Sunday after New York’s historic decision to legalize same-sex marriage. The law signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday doesn’t take effect for 30 days.

Propelled by the advancement of gay rights across the country over the past few years, Aurora college student Mark Olmstead hopes to overturn the 2006 ballot measure that defined marriage in Colorado as between a man and a woman.

The state’s title board will review the language of his ballot- initiative proposal next week. If it is approved, the next step will be to collect 86,000 signatures to get the initiative before voters in the 2012 election.

“I think the attitudes in Colorado toward gay marriage have shifted since 2006,” said Olmstead, who is gay.

Similar attempts have been made before, including in 2009, when a 23-year-old golf- club salesman tried to launch a ballot initiative to change the definition of marriage in the state constitution.

“Two years ago, there were a couple of different efforts from well-intentioned young people that did not have the resources or the organizations behind them to successfully utilize the initiative process,” said state Sen. Pat Steadman, D-Denver, who co-sponsored a civil- unions bill that was killed in a House committee in April.

Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, who sponsored Amendment 43, the 2006 ballot measure, does not support Olmstead’s attempt to change the constitution.

“But I will say this: It’s more appropriate for an issue like this to be before voters than before the legislature, trying to work around the vote of the people,” he said.

One Colorado, which advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality, disagrees.

“We applaud the spirit of the proposal,” said executive director Brad Clark.

But he added that it is the state legislature’s responsibility “to ensure these couples have the protections they need.”

Carrie Gordon Earll, spokeswoman for CitizenLink, the policy arm of Focus on the Family, doesn’t believe the ballot initiative has a chance.

“Every time the definition of marriage has gone to the voters — 31 times to date — voters have affirmed marriage as one man and one woman,” she said in a statement. “We have every confidence that the people of Colorado would affirm that vote again.”

Olmstead, meanwhile, is hopeful.

“I just want to draw attention to the issue,” he said. “Hopefully, that will bring in some sort of fundraising.”

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